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Take a walk outside and record what
you observe in your science journal.
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Download Take a Cloud Walk by Jane Kirkland for free at www.takeawalk.com/classroom-
downloads.
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Birthday (1916) of cardiologist James
Pantridge, who found that immediate CPR
treatment with a portable defibrillator
would save heart attack victims.
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A defibrillator is a tool that shocks a
stopped heart to get it beating.
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Birthday (1864) of Louis Jean Lumière,
inventor who worked with his brother to
improve photograph technology.
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Read about inven-tions in 100 Greatest Science Inventions of All Time by Ken-dall Haven (grades
5–8).
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Today, looking at photographs is part of learning about science topics.
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Read about how doctors use pictures of inside the body at http://rst.gsfc.nasa.gov/Intro/Part2_26b.html.
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The range of what we can see expanded
with the use of el_c_r_c_ty.
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How does a GPS work? Read about it at www.nasm.
si.edu/exhibitions/gps.
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Birthday (1860) of Elmer Sperry, inven-tor of the modern gyrocompass, an
electronic compass that more accurately
finds directions.
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Read about award-winning engineers at www.sperryaward.org/recipients.htm.
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Hermann Anschütz-Kaempfe also
invented the gyro-compass and fought with Elmer Sperry
over who should own the rights to patent it.
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They further developed the earlier inventions of Johann von Bohnenberger and Léon Foucault.
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Birthday (1862) of August Lumière, who developed early cin-ema with his brother Louis and showed the
first public moving picture.
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The Lumière brothers modeled the design for moving film on the way a sewing
machine foot-presser functions to move
cloth.
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Meteorologists and other scientists fore-cast a future event
based on a pattern in weather measure-
ments.
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Birthday (1932) of meteorologist June Bacon-Bercey, who
established a scholar-ship fund for women who want to become
meteorologists.
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Washing your hands is the number one
way to prevent illness.
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People have hypoth-esized many reasons
for illnesses.
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Birthday (1654) of Giovanni Lancisi, a Roman physician who observed that malaria was pres-ent in areas near
swamps.
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In the 1600s, Rome was surrounded by marsh and swamps.
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Lancisi observed a pattern of people becoming sick
with malaria when mosquitoes were
present.
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